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Originally Posted by GreyWolf
Not sure if it's the same in Canada, but in the EU you can elect to pay if you wish and have "private medical care". It's basically the same docs, operating theaters etc - just more of a hotel environment.
Doubt in reality there is much difference in "waiting times" over universal healthcare countries or the US - if a healthcare problem is not time-senstive - it will be scheduled as appropriate - otherwise treated as urgent.
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Anyone can go to the US to get the operation done - provided they can pay for it. Based on Sicko - reattachment of a middle finger is $60 000 US dollars. More serious operation will go at about half million dollars. Some complicated shit like transplants or what not will be 6 or 7 figure number. For as long as you can afford to pay such high prices, you can certainly get it done in the US. Regardless of where you live - whether it be Canada, EU or any other place in the world.
The thing is, that we're talking about 1% of people who can afford this shit. However the option is there. US doctors are in it for the money. If you can afford it, it doesn't matter to them where you are from. So people from other parts of the world have an option to go to the US or visit a privately owned hospital in their country, where they will not have to wait, but will be charged a feww that's not low. People from the US don't have these options, they always have to pay (unless they go for a trip and pretend it happened to them while being there, so they can get free treatment from that country). They can get themselves insured, but after having seen Sicko, it's fairly interesting to know how insurance companies will find the way to make sure you are an exempt form the coverage, should there be the situation...